Household Archives - The Retrofuturist

March 21, 2017

Stream this Documentary About The Futurism of Walt Disney

Many people of my generation (and the previous one) are nostalgic about Disney, whether they have memories from going to Disneyland as a child,…

September 22, 2016

Retrofuture Come True: The Roomba Predicted in 1959

I was browsing Pinterest when I saw this photograph that immediately caught my eye. I’m obsessed with retrofuturist predictions about homes, especially kitchens. In…

May 17, 2016

The Home of the Future: Year 1999 AD [VIDEO]

Here is an interesting short film I found on Youtube recently. Originally released in 1967, the short film “1999 A.D.” was released by the…

January 27, 2015

Women of the Future Will Clean with Tomorrow’s Lestoil

These vintage sci-fi themed advertisements from 1968 for a now defunct product-line called Tomorrow’s Lestoil display some slick atom-punk style space suits and some…

January 18, 2015

Is This Tomorrow? -Technicall Magazine Cover

Check out this gorgeous retrofuturist-style original art by Tomas Mullar for the cover of Technicall magazine.

January 18, 2015

The World of the Future: Future Cities

Discovered this great photoset on Flickr today: The World of the Future: Future Cities from 1979. Right off the bat I love the foresight…